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...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...
...album has music pundits slightly mystified—some have been describing Strange Little Girls as an album about the portrayal of women in pop music, and there may well be truth to that interpretation, but it is not nearly as simple or polemical as that. Tori has relegated her band to the background after their triumphant arrival on her 1999 release To Venus and Back. On Girls, she picks her way through a wash of reverberating keyboards, as on the Velvet Underground quiet-revolution opener “New Age,” and even some solo piano work...
...first single from the album, the Stranglers’ “Strange Little Girl,” is the sort of quirky, electronic-influenced rock that Tori perfected on Venus, and will undoubtedly turn quite a few heads with its slick, sexy, guitar-driven hook. However, those who are drawn by this track alone will be deceived; though “Rattlesnakes” borders on the same territory, the bulk of the album explores radically different, uncharted ground. Her take on Tom Waits’ “Time,” is, despite the quantum difference...
...centrepiece of the album is “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Instead of the Beatles’ metre-shifting, trippy free-association, Amos constructs a history of the Second Amendment. The song is particularly effective when you remember that the last time Tori Amos sang about guns was in her revelatory “Me and a Gun” on her first album Little Earthquakes—a song about her experience of being raped. “She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand...
...same words be both offensive and progressive? "The view changes depending on where you're standing," says Tori Amos. For her album Strange Little Girls, due in September, Amos reveals that she has covered 12 famous male-penned songs--including Eminem's wife-killing ode '97 Bonnie & Clyde--without changing the lyrics. The point? To expose what she sees as music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a woman's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks...